Disgrace And Oppressed People

Holy Books, Greek Myths, Sultans, Kings... Disgrace was an effective tool for them to intimidate people and inhibit societies. For the oppressed people, it was the only chance for protest, the only way for console themselves. Google Ngram shows us the usage of disgrace has its least in the present but why? Disgrace’s meaning is so flexible that people, who had the power, used it in order to intimidate people; the poor and oppressed people, who had no rights, used it in order to buck against to injustices; the communities used it in order to prevent disobey to the morals, to their beliefs. But in the present the morals are a lot more applicable and humanitarian so that people don’t disobey to them and don’t be a disgrace according to the community. The people are a lot more liberal …show more content…
All these changes from present to past caused to a huge decrease in the usage of the word “disgrace”. In early years, hierarchy was the social order of the most of the countries. The poor and oppressed people couldn’t do anything against to injustices by the people who is in the higher class and so the only thing they could do was disgrace the responsibles of an injustice whereas in the present, democracy is the social order of the most of the countries. So the level difference started to end off and now the powerless people have the rights which can be useful in order to defend themselves against to injustices so that they don’t need to utilize the word “disgrace” anymore. We can observe this with people’s reaction to same cases from different times. In 1711, There was a Great Britain company called South Sea Company which trades from Great Britain to South of America. In 1711, Great Britain was involved in the War of the Spanish Succession; and Spain controlled the South of America, where to South Sea Company